[mythtv-users] Suggested Software for Recording HDTV

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 20:46 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> > Yeah, those are designed for analog frame grabber cards.
> >
> > Have you tried Kaffeine? It's supposed to be able to deal with digital
> > TV, but I've never played with it. I think it has record capability.
> >
> > beww
>
> I have tried kaffeine and it does have a record feature but it does not
> appear to work with the pchd3000 card that I have.
>
> I was able to use dtvscan to create a channels.conf file for xine. It
> works on F8 but it is a little flaky (works better under F6). So I can
> get xine to tune the card to a digital channel. There probably is a way
> to get it to output the stream to a file but I haven't had a chance to
> test it completely. I think mplayer can be similarly used. I thought
> kaffeine uses xine as an engine but not sure why it doesn't seem to work
> with the card.


You might want to try your luck at the PCHDTV forums rather than the mailing
list dedicated to other software...

Kevin
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